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Caretaker's Cottage8◆
Destination · Cocktail bar · CBD · $$$
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A 1914 caretaker's cottage behind Wesley Church seats about 25 people and ranked 19th on the World's 50 Best Bars list for 2025.
Apollo Innjust added3◆
Destination · Classic cocktail bar · CBD · $$$
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The bar takes its name from a coaching inn that stood 50 metres up the road until the wreckers came in the early 1900s.
Bar Bellamyjust added4◆
Destination · Bistro / wine / cocktails · Carlton · $$$
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Two Melbourne chefs, asked separately where they drink, both said Bar Bellamy and both said get the devilled egg. One of them wanted a Picon Biere with it.
Three Horsesnew
Destination · Cocktail bar · CBD · $$$
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The team went to La Venencia in Madrid, a hundred-year-old sherry bodega, and came home to build their version of it.
Above Board
Destination · Intimate cocktail bar · Collingwood · $$$
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The spirits are not on display anywhere in this bar. They sit in unmarked decanters in drawers under the counter, and the drinks list is about twenty-five long because that is how much fits.
Byrdijust added
Solid · Native cocktail bar · CBD · $$$
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A Yarra Valley pear gets poached, dehydrated, rehydrated with smoke and distilled into a spirit that tastes like mezcal.
Supernormal2◆
Solid · Pan-Asian · CBD · $$$
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Andrew McConnell put a New England lobster roll on the opening menu at 180 Flinders Lane in early 2014, and it has never come off.
Black Pearljust added
Solid · Cocktail bar · Fitzroy · $$
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Tash Conte's family were running a restaurant on this site called Relish.
Pendant Public Barjust added
Solid · Public / cocktail bar · Fitzroy · $$
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The name came off a coaster. Linton and Kelly ran a Name Our Bar pop-up at Black Pearl in late 2023, and the suggestions kept referring to their kelpie's one floppy ear.
Hands Downnew
Solid · Cocktail bar · Fitzroy · $$
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They kept the old brass bar and its timber panelling because timber resonates, then dropped the ceiling for soundproofing, and built the room around a vintage Tannoy.
Gin Palace
Solid · Gin & martini bar · CBD · $$$
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" The martini comes to your table rather than the bar, poured cold at 90ml.
The Local Taphouse
Solid · Craft beer · St Kilda East · $$
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The first Great Australian Beer SpecTAPular was held in this pub in February 2011 with twenty new Australian beers on. It now runs in Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney and Auckland.
One or Twojust added
Solid · Whisky & cocktail bar · CBD · $$$
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The Anchovy Toast is a cocktail. Monkey Shoulder scotch, XO sauce, chilli and sourdough, in a chilled tumbler, with a crostini of anchovy mousse balanced on top.
Whisky and Alement
Solid · Whisky bar · CBD · $$$
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About ten bottles the bar has never carried before land here every week, and the whole crew tastes them and writes notes before a single one goes on the list.
Great Northern Hotel
Solid · Gastropub · Carlton North · $$
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The licensee started Feral Brewery in Western Australia before he took on this 1883 corner pub in 2008, which is why a suburban local ended up with twenty-one taps.
Nana Thai
Solid · Thai mookata BBQ · CBD · $$
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Before anything goes on the grill you rub the dome with a block of pork fat, and as it renders it runs off the sides into the moat of broth that cooks everything else.
Backspace
Listed · Neighbourhood cocktail bar · CBD · $$
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Ben Cester opened it because nowhere else on that stretch would take a walk-in group with thirty minutes before a dinner booking.
Siglo
Listed · Rooftop cocktail/cigar · CBD · $$$
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Siglo is Spanish for century and it is also the name of a Cohiba, which tells you what the terrace was built around: a humidor, a view of Parliament, and a licence that runs to three in the morning.
Atticus Finch
Listed · Cocktail and wine bar · Brunswick East · $$$
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The bar's own site tells you to order a pizza from up the road and bring it in, which is the clearest statement anyone has made about what this place is for.
Cookie
Listed · Thai / beer hall · CBD · $$
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Nobody agrees how much beer is up here. The venue says up to 80 at a time, Time Out says 200, and no independent count exists.
Hats & Tatts CBD
Listed · Cocktail bar · CBD · $$
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A frat-themed dive bar with a CO2 carbonation rig behind the counter, used to build a negroni that arrives fizzing instead of stirred.
Saving Grace
Listed · Hidden cocktail bar · CBD · $$
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Six taps, rotated seasonally, running through Melbourne brewers like Fixation, Hop Nation and Two Bays.
Spleen Bar
Listed · Casual/comedy bar · CBD · $
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The Monday comedy room holds about sixty people, and it is where Wil Anderson, Adam Hills, Tom Gleeson and Sammy J have gone to try material that has not been tested yet.
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